Benedict Cumberbatch

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in London, The United Kingdom

July 19, 1976

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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English film, television, theatre and voice actor.

His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking (2004), Victor Frankenstein and his creature in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Frankenstein (2011) at the Royal National Theatre, Sherlock Holmes in the BBC/PBS series Sherlock, Peter Guillam in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Christopher Tietjens in the BBC/HBO miniseries Parade's End (2013), Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Smaug the dragon through voice and motion capture in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy.
Cumberbatch stars in the upcoming historical drama film, The Imitation Game (2014) as wartime cryptographer Alan Turin ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 4,483 ratings · 656 reviews · 30 distinct works

	Cabin Pressure 4 (Cabin Pressure, #4) by John Finnemore (Author, Reader), Stephanie Cole (Reader) , Benedict Cumberbatch (Reader) 4.78 avg rating — 326 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cabin Pressure 2 (Cabin Pressure, #2) by John Finnemore (Author, Reader), Stephanie Cole (Reader) , Benedict Cumberbatch (Reader) 4.79 avg rating — 306 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cabin Pressure (Cabin Pressure, #3) by John Finnemore (Author, Reader), Stephanie Cole (Reader) , Benedict Cumberbatch (Reader) 4.78 avg rating — 297 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Benedict Cumberbatch (Introduction) 4.10 avg rating — 195,414 ratings — published 1902 — 1955 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cabin Pressure: The Collected Series by Stephanie Cole (Reader), Benedict Cumberbatch (Reader) , Roger Allam (Reader) 4.83 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Smaug: Unleashing the Dragon by Daniel Falconer, Benedict Cumberbatch (Foreword) 4.41 avg rating — 153 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Snowman and the Snowdog by Hilary Audus, Joanna Harrison , Raymond Briggs (Original Author) 3.73 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cabin Pressure (Cabin Pressure, #1) by John Finnemore, Stephanie Cole (Narrator) , Roger Allam (Narrator) 4.72 avg rating — 47 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherlock Holmes: The Rediscovered Railway Mysteries and Other Stories by John Taylor (Goodreads Author), Benedict Cumberbatch (Narrator) 3.80 avg rating — 1,797 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neverwhere [Adaptation] by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author), Christopher Lee (Narrator) , James McAvoy (Narrator) 4.34 avg rating — 2,629 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

tags: reading

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“Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

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“The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

tags: acting, challenge, comfort-zone, fun

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